THE CHAFFINCH. 



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for berries in the hedges and gardens, for it is now autumn, and there are 

 neither seeds nor caterpillars. And they visit the farmyards and pick up the 

 grains of corn, and get them out of the husk with their bills. 



Often, when the farmer walks into the stackyard, thousands of sparrows 

 and finches fly out of the stacks in clouds. 



In Sweden the hen chaffinches, by going away in the winter, and leaving 

 their mates behind, are quite by themselves. This is the reason why the 

 great naturalist Linnaeus gave the chaffinch the name of ccelcbs, a word which 

 means a bachelor. 



THE HOUSE SPARRuW. 



There is also another saying about him that has passed into a proverb. 

 When a person is very smartly dressed, he is said by the French to be " as gay 

 as a chaffinch." 



THE HOUSE SPARROW. 



There is a large family of birds the most familiar to us of any. They are so 

 bold that they will hardly move out of our way, and if they do fly off a few 

 paces, they sit down again and look as if they were not in the least afraid. 



